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In an aerial view, a cleared lot where the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building once stood is seen on June 22, 2022, in Surfside, Fla., a year after the tragic event where 98 people died when the building partially collapsed in 2021.

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  • National

A Florida condo tower's collapse may have begun on its pool deck

The accident in Surfside, Fla., killed 98 people two years ago. Now a federal team says the condo's concrete columns and pool deck were constructed improperly and didn't meet building codes.

June 16, 2023
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  • Greg Allen
Ethan Peck as Spock and Rebecca Romijn as Una.

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  • TV Reviews

'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 is a classic sci-fi adventure

Beloved characters and eye-popping special effects return in this adventure-of-the-week format.

June 15, 2023
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, president of the newspaper <em>El Periódico</em>, arrives handcuffed and under police escort to listen to a Guatemalan court's ruling in a case against him, at the Palace of Justice in Guatemala City, on Wednesday.

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  • World

A court in Guatemala has sentenced a prominent journalist to 6 years in jail

Human rights groups have called the trial of journalist José Rubén Zamora a politically motivated sham after his newspaper uncovered corruption in the Central American country.

June 14, 2023
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  • Eyder Peralta
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues opted to pause interest rate hikes at their meeting Wednesday.

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  • Economy

Taking a breather: Fed holds interest rates steady in patient battle against inflation

After 10 straight rate hikes, the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday, but hinted that additional rate hikes are possible if inflation remains stubbornly high.

June 14, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
A myriad of workers rallied in downtown Los Angeles in support of striking writers, during an event called "The Unions Strike Back" on May 26, 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

'It's gonna be a hot labor summer' — unionized workers show up for striking writers

Film and TV writers on strike may soon be joined by actors currently negotiating their contract. As the writers strike enters its seventh week, unions beyond Hollywood are joining the movement.

June 14, 2023
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By:
  • Mandalit del Barco
In structured literacy, students spend a lot of time learning how to break words down into bits of sound called phonemes.

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  • News

A new way of teaching kids to read in Georgia

Georgia is changing the way students are taught to read. This year a new law requires schools to adopt what's known as Science of Reading and Structured Literacy.

June 14, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
GPB News NPR

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  • National

The Reddit blackout explained

Thousands of communities on the social media site Reddit went dark in an apparent protest of new fees. The outrage focuses on new charges that Reddit levied on the developers of third-party apps.

June 13, 2023
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  • Bobby Allyn
Cormac McCarthy attends the New York premiere of <em>The Road</em>, the film adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, in 2009.

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  • Obituaries

Cormac McCarthy, American novelist of the stark and dark, dies at 89

The author of The Road, Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men embodied a strong Southwestern sensibility, writing often about men grappling with the existence of evil.

June 13, 2023
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  • Wade Goodwyn
A studio portrait of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers taken in the early 1960s.

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  • History

60 years ago, Medgar Evers became a martyr of the Civil Rights Movement

On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated at his home in Jackson, Miss., by a Ku Klux Klan member. While other leaders pushed for equality across the U.S., Evers focused on his native Mississippi.

June 12, 2023
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  • Julian Ring
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Breaking down the stakes of special counsel Jack Smith's historic indictment of Trump

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Georgetown University professor and former prosecutor Paul Butler about the historic federal charges against former President Donald Trump over classified documents.

June 12, 2023
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  • Alejandra Marquez Janse,
  • Ashley Brown,
  • and 1 more
GPB News NPR

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A statewide survey of California's bumblebees hopes to help conserve them

Search coastal California for wild bumblebees with conservation biologist Leif Richardson, one of the leaders of the California Bumble Bee Atlas with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.

June 12, 2023
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  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • and 1 more
Trevor Powers says his mind kept drifting to the "what ifs" questions after he lost his voice.

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  • Religion

Losing his voice gave this singer a new appreciation for God — and being alone

Trevor Powers went to the doctor in October 2021 for a minor stomach ache. He was prescribed an over-the-counter medication and expected it to clear up in a couple days. But that's not what happened.

June 11, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Trans-rights supporters filled a meeting of Florida's medical boards on Feb. 10, 2023 in Tallahassee. The boards voted to approve rules banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth, rules later codified by the state legislature.

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  • National

Florida families face confusion after gender-affirming care ban temporarily blocked

This week, a judge temporarily blocked Florida's ban on gender-affirming care for kids. It's seen as a win for trans rights but a chilling effect has left some providers and families confused on care.

June 09, 2023
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By:
  • Melissa Block
<a href="https://firststrokes.org/" data-key="424">First Strokes</a> is a New York-based organization working to get teens in the water safely — and to try to remove the barriers to learning. Above, a First Strokes class at Hill Regional Career High School in New Haven, Conn.

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  • Arts & Life

Many teens don't know how to swim. A grassroots organization is trying to change that

First Strokes, a nonprofit based in New York City, is helping students learn water safety skills and how to swim. They offer free swimming lessons for teens — taught by other teens.

June 09, 2023
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Trump says he's been indicted tied to classified documents probe

Former President Donald Trump says he has been indicted in the federal probe into mishandling government documents and obstruction. He is the first former president to be charged with a federal crime.

June 08, 2023
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  • Carrie Johnson
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